Portable newspaper-rack.



A. E. MAOKINNON- PORTABLE NEWSPAPER RACK.

APPLICATION FILED 131:0. e, 1912.

1,089,569, Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT E. MACKINNON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PORTABLE NEWSPAPER-RACK,

1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT E. MACKIN- NON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Portable Newspaper-Rack; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable other skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates particularly to a portable newspaper rack for use by news boys or the like to assist in carrying a large number of papers of different kinds or sets, but is not restricted to such use, as it may be used in any connection for which it may be adapted or appropriate.

The object of the invention is the provision of a rack of this character, which is simple, light, and durable in its construction, and is adapted to be carried by a person in a manner to permit both hands to be free, and to support a plurality of different sets or kinds of papers in such manner as to display the names of the difierent papers and to enable a paper in any set to be easily and quickly removed without disturbing the papers of the other sets.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and while, in its broader aspect, it is capable of embodiment in numerous forms, a preferred embodiment thereof is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 illustrates a rack embodying my invention in use, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the rack.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 1 designate the body members of the rack, which members are preferably formed of strap-metal, are of duplicate construction, and laterally spaced in substantially parallel relation. Each of the members 1, 1 has its lower end portion of stepped outwardly projecting form, as indicated at 2, the steps being of a number to suit the number of different sets of papers to be carried, being shown, in the present instance, as six in number.

The lower ends of the members 1, 1 or, in the present instance, the riser portions of the lower steps of such members, are riveted Specification of Letters Patent. Patented D121. 10, 1914. Application filed December 6, 1912.

Serial No. 735259.

or otherwise suitably fixed to a front guard part 3, which rises above the said lower steps and is preferably of plate form to permit the printing or otherwise displaying on the outer surface thereof of any information or advertising matter as desired. For this reason the part 3 is preferably of sheet metal.

Fixedly attached to and rising from the corresponding riser portion 4 of each step of the body members 1 is a spacing member 5, which, in the present instance, is formed of a rod or heavy wire bent in inverted U- form, with the terminal portions of the legs thereof attached to the respective riser portions 4. The front plate 3 and spacing members 5 cooperate to connect the body members 1, 1 in quite a rigid manner. The spacingunembers 5 are preferably of the same height relative to their respective steps so that the upper ends thereof are in stepped order.

The rack is intended to from the shoulders of the or carrying the same, and for this purpose the bodymembers 1, l are provided at their upper ends with a flexible strap-member 6, which is intended to extend over the shoulders and around the back of the neck of the wearer. This strap member fixedly attaches at one end to one of the members 1, as at 7, and has its other end capable of adjustable attachment to the upper end of the other person wearing body member, as by the provision of a button 8 on such body member and the provision of a plurality of longitudinally spaced button-holes 9 in the adjacent end portion of the strap-member 6.

The lower stepped portion of the rack projects outward from the body of the wearer, and, in order to brace such portion against sagging when weighted down with papers, a brace part 10 projects rearwardly from the stepped portions of the body members 1, l and is intended to bear against the body of the person. This bracing member is shown as being formed of a rod or heavy wire, which is bent substantially in U-shape with its leg terminals attached to the under sides of registering steps of the two body members and with its loop portion bowed inwardly relative to the rack to adapt it to fit the portion of the body against which it is intended to rest.

It is evident with this form of rack that a considerable number of different sets or be suspended kinds of newspapers or similar articles can be carried thereby with the papers of the different sets resting upon the difierent steps of the rack and held in spaced relation by the parts 3 and 5, as is apparent." "\Vhen the ditlerent sets of papers are separated by' the rack in this manner," the out'er'paper of each set has its heading exposed so that the names of the different papers carried are f ll v ew: f p mha r a d ny P p an "he teh hd H61 h eth n -b ut tiirbifr'igthe others.

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